Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized integers

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> And in linux/const.h we have yet another variant:
> /* Some constant macros are used in both assembler and
>  * C code.  Therefore we cannot annotate them always with
>  * 'UL' and other type specifiers unilaterally.  We
>  * use the following macros to deal with this.
>  *
>  * Similarly, _AT() will cast an expression with a type in C, but
>  * leave it unchanged in asm.
>  */
> 
> #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
> #define _AC(X,Y)        X
> #define _AT(T,X)        X
> #else
> #define __AC(X,Y)       (X##Y)
> #define _AC(X,Y)        __AC(X,Y)
> #define _AT(T,X)        ((T)(X))
> #endif
> 
> Not as typestrict as hpa's and arm's version but
> used in a few placed already.
> 

These, unfortunately, don't solve the issue of gcc warnings, and you 
don't want to make them paste ULL on before the cast, since I think 
they're used with non-simple constants.

	-hpa